 An inexperienced authority, easy to lure by clever individuals such as Catărău, was being portrayed by them as incapable of effectively defending peasants' rights to "take everything".At the same time, a number of former functionaries who were left without political power by what they regarded as filthy peasants, started to undermine the authority of Sfatul Țării, and found associates among political radicals that were spreading demagogy.In the conditions that the legal authority was being challenged in the northernmost and southernmost districts by numerous gangs of demobilized Russian soldiers on their way home, some soldiers already pray to the influence of the Bolshevik ideology, and even when in Chișinău the authority was not always effective, to realize the land reform, to organize the administration and justice, to nationalize the education, were impossible tasks in the current security situation.